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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTIME: Why Hillary Clinton’s Foreign Policy Speech Wasn’t the One She Needed to Give
Hillary Clinton delivered a solid, well-crafted foreign policy speech today, and she did it very effectively. But this wasnt the speech she needed to give.
First, her remarks were intended for the foreign policy establishment, the people who care about foreign policy details and Americas role in the world. These are not the people she needs to reach. She must speak directly to those who feel globalization has stolen their livelihoods and dont see why Americans must carry heavier and more expensive burdens than others do. Some of those people are persuadable.
Second, she spent too much presenting herself as the plausible alternative to disaster. Her own foreign policy record is not sterling. She was an active secretary of state, but President Obama didnt deliver his finest foreign policy accomplishmentsstriking the Iran nuclear deal, lifting the embargo against Cuba, negotiating the Transpacific Partnershipuntil Clinton had moved on. She deserves credit for helping to bring Iran to the nuclear negotiating table, but it fell to her successor to complete the deal. Her attempt to reset relations with Russia was a farce from start to finish. The pivot to Asia and agreement on the Transpacific Partnership were her biggest successes, but she has backed away from both while running for president. In short, Clinton is long on foreign policy experience, but short on foreign policy successes.
http://time.com/4355937/hillary-clinton-foreign-policy-speech/
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TIME: Why Hillary Clinton’s Foreign Policy Speech Wasn’t the One She Needed to Give (Original Post)
tabasco
Jun 2016
OP
1939
(1,683 posts)1. Can we add Libya to her list if accomplishments? NT
thereismore
(13,326 posts)2. She certainly thinks it's an accomplishment. nt
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)5. It's at the top of her accomplishments
At the time she was very proud of her accomplishment, the use of "soft power" to reshape a country. Five years later with hindsight, doesn't look so great.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)3. Time's deep concern is noted for the record
Did Time at least like Clinton's nail polish?
msongs
(67,394 posts)4. speech was more about trump than actual foreign policy. the Time guy got that wrong nt
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)6. OT but TPP was one
of Obama's "finest foreign policy accomplishments"? It certainly doesn't seem like Secretary Clinton sees it that way...at the moment.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)7. It's been a long time since Time mattered...
More right-wing crap from what was once a fine journalist publication.